Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
SUCKA BONE BBQ TEAM has landed one call behind them 2 times.
BLACK RIVER BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1487
peak 1487 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-09-06
latest 2025-09-05
Best ToY finish
#1148
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 82%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.57 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.83)
Road miles
27
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
657.63 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
BLACK RIVER BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 140 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#3789 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 6 years before BLACK RIVER BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1487
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3809 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1487
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before BLACK RIVER BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3820 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Level with BLACK RIVER BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3817 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before BLACK RIVER BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 169.1428 | 170.57 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 156.5028 | 160.83 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 163.4288 | 165.13 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 157.6800 | 161.10 | top 77% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-09-06 → 2025-09-05
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
OH
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.57 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.83)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
657.63
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
53
13–57 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
27
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1487
peak 1487 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.4060 Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- 2025
- Career-best overall score659.8512 Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.0000 Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- Most recent contest Grizzly BBQ Brawl
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 91.6% | 91.6% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 91% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-05 | Grizzly BBQ Brawl 🏅 Wellington, OH | 34 / 42 (659.8512) | 21 (172.0000) | 35 (156.5028) | 32 (166.8228) | 27 (164.5256) |
| 2024-09-06 | Grizzly BBQ Brawl 🏅 Wadsworth, OH | 25 / 30 (655.4060) | 17 (169.1428) | 18 (165.1544) | 22 (163.4288) | 27 (157.6800) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1147 (80 pts) | #1293 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1508 (55 pts) | #1114 (95 pts) | #1190 (90 pts) | #1189 (70 pts) | #1513 (55 pts) |